The Cook's and Churchill's.

Prince Edward Island is beautiful, very neat and clean

At the end of July and the first of August my wife and I and our son, Travis, had a great trip to New England and Canada. Each of us had our own agenda. Travis was there to take pictures, Linda's was to go to Prince Edward Island and Anna Green Gables, I am sure you can guess mine was to do family history.


I have been working on the Cook's and Churchill's as of late. It has been great to get to know them a little better. From the records I have found they came from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia so both of them were in our plans. Nova Scotia got the largest part of our time though.

The above left picture was taken in Lovell, Maine
where we received royal treatment

It is always hard for me to go to a new area and find what you are looking for and going to a new country made it even a little harder. The next problem was the time. We did not have enough of it. I knew we needed some help so I prayed about it and going to the Halifax Temple was a good place to start and I was not disappointed. As we went in the Temple there were very few people around. I soon found out that it took all the workers in the temple to make a session work. They were short on patrons. When the session was over people start to show up including the temple Pres. who had just the information I needed. We had a great visit with him after the session we where in. He gave us the name of people who could help. Our first stop was a lady who was of great help. She gave us the name of a member in Yarmouth. He had a lot of information that could turn into what we need. He told us the Churchills and the Cooks were some of the major names in the area. He also told us of many other things that could help. The lack of time was a problem.  

Travis took this self portrait on the deck of the ferry.

We did have fun on the ferry from nova Scotia to New Brunswick. It was a four hour trip. I can't believe how many cars and trucks they could put on the ferry. The water was a little rough but the trip was fun. We did see a dolphin on the way over.

We had a great time in Maine. There is a lot to see there. We followed the coast line and saw a lot of great sights.




We enjoyed seeing the ocean from many different views. Jim found a spot to just sit and relax.

Below is the bridge from New Brunswick to Prince Edward Island. It is 8 miles long across the ocean. It was free to go over, but $45 to come back. Still, it was cheaper and took less time than taking the ferry from there to Nova Scotia.